TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
PERIODS OF LIMITATION
X X X X Extracts X X X X
X X X X Extracts X X X X
.... For an account and a share of the profits of a dissolved partnership. Three years The date of the dissolution. PART II - SUITS RELATING TO CONTRACTS 6. For a seaman's wages. Three years The end of the voyage during which the wages are earned. 7. For wages in the case of any other person Three years When the wages accrue due. 8. For the price of food or drink sold by the keeper of a hotel, tavern or lodging house. Three years When the food or drink is delivered. 9. For the price of lodging. Three years When the price be­comes payable. 10. Against a carrier for compensa­tion for losing or injuring goods Three years When the loss or in­jury occurs. 11 Against a carrier for compensa­tion for non-delivery of, or delay in delivering, goods. Three years When the goods ought to be delivered. 12 For the hire of animals, vehi­cles, boats or household furni­ture. Three years When the hire be­comes payable. 13 For the balance of money ad­vanced in payment of goods to be delivered. Three years When the goods ought to be delivered. 14 For the price of goods sold and delivered where no fixed period of credit is agreed upon. Th....
X X X X Extracts X X X X
X X X X Extracts X X X X
....ingle bond, where no such day is specified. Three years The date of executing the bond. 30. On a bond subject to a condition Three years When the condition is broken. 31. On a bill of exchange or promis­sory note payable at a fixed time after date. Three years When the bill or note falls due. 32. On a bill of exchange payable at sight, or after sight, but not at a fixed time. Three years When the bill is present­ed. 33. On a bill of exchange accepted payable at a particular place. Three years When the bill is present­ed at that place. 34. On a bill of exchange or promis­sory note payable at a fixed time after sight or after demand Three years When the fixed time expires. 35. On a bill of exchange or promis­sory note payable on demand and not accompanied by any writing restraining or postpon­ing the right to sue. Three years The date of the bill or note. 36. On a promissory note or bond payable by instalments Three years The expiration of the first term of payment as to the part then pay­able ; and for the other parts, the expiration of the respective terms of payment. 37. On a promissory note or bond payable by instalments....
X X X X Extracts X X X X
X X X X Extracts X X X X
....han his share of the amount of revenue due from himself and his co-sharers. Three years The date of the pay­ment in excess of the plaintiff's own share. 49. By a co-trustee to enforce against the estate of a deceased trustee a claim for contribution. Three years When the right to con­tribution accrues. 50. By the manager of a joint estate of an undivided family for con­tribution, in respect of a pay­ment made by him on account of the estate. Three years The date of the payment. 51. For the profits of immovable property belonging to the plain­tiff which have been wrongfully received by the defendant. Three years When the profits are re­ceived. 52. For arrears of rent. Three years When the arrears be­come due. 53. By a vendor of immovable pro­perty for personal payment of unpaid purchase-money. Three years The time fixed for com­pleting the sale, or (where the title is accepted after the time fixed for completion) the date of the accep­tance. 54. For specific performance of a contract. Three years The date fixed for the performance, or, if no such date is fixed, when the plaintiff has noticed that perfor­mance is r....
X X X X Extracts X X X X
X X X X Extracts X X X X
....by the mort­gagee becomes due. (b) for possession of immov­able property mortgaged. Twelve years When the mortgagee becomes entitled to possession. 64. For possession of immovable property based on previous possession and not on title, when the plaintiff while in possession of the property has been dispos­sessed. Twelve years The date of disposses­sion. 65. For possession of immovable property or any interest therein based on title. Twelve years When the possession of the defendant becomes adverse to the plaintiff. Explanation : For the purposes of this article -- (a) where the suit is by a remainderman, a reversion-er (otherthan a landlord) or a devisee, the possession of the defendant shall be deemed to become adverse only when the estate of the remainderman, reversioner or devisee, as the case may be, falls into posses­sion ; (b) where the suit is by a Hindu or Muslim entitled to the possession of immov­able property on the death of a Hindu or Muslim female, the possession of the defendant shall be deemed to become adverse only when the female dies ; (c) where the suit is by a pur­chaser at a sale in execu­tion of a decree when the ....
X X X X Extracts X X X X
X X X X Extracts X X X X
.... of movable property under legal process. One year The date of the seizure. 81. By executors, administrators or representatives under the Legal Representatives' Suits Act, 1855 (12 of 1855). One year The date of the death of the person wronged. 82. By executors, administrators or representatives under the Indian Fatal Accidents Act, 1855 (13 of 1855). Two years The date of the death of the person killed. 83. Under the Legal Representatives' Suits Act, 1855 (12 of 1855) against an executor, an administrator or any other representative. Two years When the wrong com­plained of is done. 84. Against one who, having a right to use property for specific pur­poses, perverts it to other pur­poses. Two years When the perversion first becomes known to the person injured thereby. 85. For compensation for obstructing a way or a water course. Three years The date of the obstruc­tion. 86. For compensation for diverting a water course. Three years The date of the diversion. 87. For compensation for trespass upon immovable property. Three years The date of the trespass 88. For compensation for infring­ing copyright or any other exclusive privilege....
X X X X Extracts X X X X
X X X X Extracts X X X X
....or on special contract. One year When the purchaser takes under the sale sought to be impeached, physical possession of the whole, or, part of the property sold, or, where the subject-matter of the sale does not admit of physical possession of the whole or part of the property, when the in­strument of sale is reg­istered. 98. By a person against whom an order under rule 63 or rule 103 of OrderXXI of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908) or an order under section 28 of the Presidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 (15 of 1882), has been made, to establish the right which he claims to the property comprised in the order. One year The date of the final order. 99. To set aside a sale by a civil or revenue court or a sale for arrears of Government revenue or for any demand recoverable as such arrears. One year When the sale is con­firmed or would other­wise have become final and conclusive had no such suit been brought. 100. To alter or set aside any decision or order of a civil court in any proceeding other than a suit or any act or order of an officer of Government in his official capacity. One year The date of the final decision or order by the cou....
X X X X Extracts X X X X
X X X X Extracts X X X X
....on or dis­continuance. 112. Any suit (except a suit before the Supreme Court in the exercise of its original jurisdic­tion) by or on behalf of the Central Government or any State Government, including the Government of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Thirty years When the period of limi­tation would begin to run under this Act against a like suit by a private person. PART X - SUITS FOR WHICH THERE IS NO PRESCRIBED PERIOD 113. Any suit for which no period limitation is provided elsewherof in this Schedule. Three years When the right to sue accrues. SECOND DIVISION - APPEALS Description of appeal Period of limitation Time from which period begins to run 114. Appeal from an order of acquit­tal-- (a) under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 417 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898(5 of 1898); Ninety days The date of the order appealed from. (b) under sub-section (3) of section 417 of that Code. Thirty days The date of the grant of special leave. 115. Under the Code of Criminal Pro­cedure, 1898 (5 of 1898)-- (a) from a sentence of death passed by a court of session or by a High Court in the exercise of its original crimi­nal....
X X X X Extracts X X X X
X X X X Extracts X X X X
....by a court other than the Supreme Court. Thirty days The date of the decree or order. 125. To record an adjustment or satis­faction of a decree. Thirty days When the payment or adjustment is made. 126. For the payment of the amount of a decree by instalments. Thirty days The date of the decree. 127. To set aside a sale in execution of a decree, including any such appli­cation by a judgment-debtor. [Sixty] days The date of the sale. 128. For possession by one dispos­sessed of immovable property and disputing the right of the decree-holder or purchaser at a sale in execution of a decree. Thirty days The date of the dispossession. 129. For possession after removing resistance or obstruction to de­livery of possession of immov­able property decreed or sold in execution of a decree. Thirty days The date of resistance or obstruction. 130. For leave to appeal as a pauper-- (a) to the High Court; Sixty days The date of decree appealed from. (b) to any other Court. Thirty days The date of decree appealed from. 131. To any court for the exercise of its powers of revision under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), or the Code of Cr....